Re: [Jmol-developers] Jmol jar file size

[Tamas H. <ho...@gm...>]

I checked the 12.1.9 binary version's JmolApplet.jar is essentially the same
size as the old one. There's only a minor size increase. Could it be
possible that only the compression algorithm changed in your case?

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Nicolas Vervelle <nve...@gm...>wrote:

> I am really surprised by these numbers.
>
> I think both versions are compiled with Java 1.5.
> It seems strange that the increase in size would be due to the use of new
> language features (Generics, ...)
>
> Bob, can you check inside the .jar files to see what files are causing this
> ?
> All class files have increased or only some ?
>
> Nico
>
> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Robert Hanson <ha...@st...> wrote:
>
>> Well, SHOOT! It looks like our shift to Java 1.5 caused quite the increase
>> in Jar file size. Every class file is about 30% larger, as reflected in the
>> following differences:
>>
>> Jmol 12.0 JmolApplet.jar
>>
>> 1.986 Mb
>>
>> Jmol 12.1 JmolApplet.jar
>>
>> 2.419 Mb
>>
>>
>> I guess I have to say I'm surprised and disappointed. I know - all these
>> numbers are large - but I've tried very hard to keep these as low as
>> possible. It's disappointing to see that just changing to a newer version of
>> Java - primarily for maintenance purposes, since the upgrade didn't give us
>> any new capability at all - resulted in such a large increase in file size
>> across the board.
>>
>> I think I'm still glad we did that, but still, this is sad to see. Any
>> ideas?
>>
>> Bob
>>
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